• The creation of light. God names light ‘day’ and the darkness ‘night’.

• The first recorded words of God that we have are ‘let there be light’ (Genesis 1:3 NIV), The sun was already shining brightly but God made the earths thick new atmosphere allow diffuse light to penetrate to the surface. and so it was that light was made separate from darkness. The first day of earth's creation was literally the first "day" as someone on earth's surface would experience it - a period of opaque light, and a period of darkness. (Genesis 1:3-5)

The creation of sky.

The separation of the waters. There was yet no liquid water, no oceans. All of the water was in the form of a vapor, a worldwide super-fog, extending a number of kilometers/miles up from the very hot (above the boiling temperature of water) bare-rock earth's surface (the earth's core remains molten right to the present day). God's "hovering over the waters" in verse 2 describes His being above that gaseous-water atmosphere, not a liquid ocean. God then caused most of the water to condense onto the cooling earth which simultaneously formed a whole-planet ocean and cleared the sky. (Genesis 1:6-8)

• The creation of land and seas. The creation of all kinds of plants.

• The first appearance of dry ground. The further cooling of the surface set in motion a process of natural contraction, uplifting and motion of the crust (the process continues today, called "plate tectonics"). The earth changed from a smooth one-level molten "cue ball" to a planet with an irregular surface with ocean basins and continental landmasses. With dry ground available, the first plants were made to grow in great abundance. (Genesis 1:9-13)

• The creation of sun moon and stars.• With the sky now clear, the sun, moon and stars were

dependably visible. They were to "serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years." The sun marked the day (sunset to sunset), the moon the month (new moon to new moon), and the stars the seasons (constellations are seen in particular seasons e.g. "Orion" is visible in winter in the northern hemisphere, which is summer in the southern hemisphere). (Genesis 1:14-19)

• The creation of sea life and birds.• Great numbers of birds and sea creatures. God blessed them

and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." (Genesis 1:20-23)

• The creation of animals. The creation of men and women to help God to care for the earth.

• Vast numbers of land animals. Man. From the man, woman (humans today are just now discovering how to genetically alter fertilized embryos, and even to create one human from the tissue of another - known as "cloning"). (Genesis 1:24-31)

• God rests, looks at everything and see that it is all very good.• The Sabbath Day. "By the seventh day God had finished the

work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested [or ceased] from all the work of creating that He had done." The day that is the basis for The Fourth Commandment. (Genesis 2:2-3)

• A Prayer :

Dear Lord

Bless All of us all of the your creations on earth let light shine upon us, make the sun shine down,

Let everyone live in eternal happiness

Amen.